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Psychologist Expert 107491 IL

Expertise Description

I have over 40 years experience as a Psychologist providing comprehensive psychological testing to children, adolescents, and college students. I have completed thousands of evaluations on children to determine the possible presence and extent of ADHD, learning disabilities, academic problems, developmental delays and behavioral, personality, student grading, and emotional problems. I have experience in determining children’s needs in the areas of academic accommodations (504 Plans) and special education programming (Individual Education Plan-IEP), as well as in testing to assess risk or potential for anger or violence in children. I have additional experience in forensic psychology with children, adolescents, and adults including sex offender risk assessments and competency evaluations. My expertise includes child custody / visitation cases, assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder from motor vehicle accidents or other accidents / trauma, social psychology, as well as the effects of pervasive development disorders including autistic spectrum disorders on children’s ability to learn and function. I have more than 35 years expert witness experience with consultations, deposition, and courtroom testimony.

Professional Experiences

Relevant Experiences

As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who is also a Certified School Psychologist, I have conducted hundreds of evaluations of children who have been or claimed they had been sexually abuse. I have also treated scores of such patients over my nearly 40 year career as a psychologist. Having completed a 1 year post doctoral fellowship on evaluating and treating sex offenders, I have treated and evaluated hundreds of people accused and/or convicted of sex offenses.

I have also evaluated and treated hundreds of combat veterans suffering from or claiming to be suffering from PTSD under a contract with the Veteran's Administration and as private patients under their insurance, pro bono, or on a fee for service basis. As an aside, I am a veteran myself, having served during the Vietnam era including flying missions in southeast Asia during Vietnam and in the Mediterranean Sea during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.

In my forensic practice, I have also evaluated a number of defendants with regard to possible vulnerability vis a vis coerced confessions and have testified a few times in such matters.

As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who was in private practice for 35+ years, I have provided marriage counseling to hundreds of couples. I have also treated a number of "impaired" mental health professionals for this type of issue. I was appointed by the Governor of Illinois to serve on the first Sex Offender Evaluation and Treatment Provider Licensing and Disciplinary Board whose function is to establish standards for training and conduct, review license applications and investigate and discipline cases of professional misconduct. The issue in the case is one of the most common amongst disciplinary cases and malpractice lawsuits against mental health professionals.

For 25 years, I served as the managing partner of the largest, private, outpatient mental health practice in Winnebago County. During my tenure, our practice had two such cases involving boundary violations of a sexual nature between a therapist and client which necessitated interventions. During my post doctoral fellowship of evaluating and treating sex offenders, transference issues were discussed in length, especially vis a vis client-patient violations.

Throughout my practice I also, often, served as an expert mental health witness in a wide variety of civil and criminal cases. I have testified in depositions and in front of judges and juries well over 100 times.

In addition to being a Certified School Psychologist and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a subspecialty in children and ADHD, I taught child developmental psychology to medical students and residents. For 8+ years as a school psychologist I evaluated and treated scores of children with ADHD and related issues. In my 35+ years in private practice, I probably saw 2000+ children with ADHD. In the course of my practice, I have done considerable forensic work including completing a few hundred child custody evaluations, many involving similar issues to this case.

Education

Degree

Subject

Institution

Doctorate

Psychology

Norther Illinois University

Master's

Psychology

The Ohio State University

Bachelor's

Psychology

Emporia State University

Russian Language Studies

Syracuse University

NY

Licenses Certifications

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Certified School Psychologist

Wisconsin Sex Offender Evaluation and Treatment

Fellow

Awards & Affiliation

Primary Affiliation

American Psychological Association

Partial List of Consulting Expert Witness Cases

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